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October 11, 2021
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Integrating to splunk

  • October 11, 2021
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Hi All, We are working on getting appian data to splunk. Appian has been configured to push the logs to splunk syslog endpoint. We have tried several things but the data received in splunk is still encrypted. 

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.2/Log_Streaming_for_Appian_Cloud.html#prerequisite-checklist

Below is the config of splunk. Please help us if you have done this is past or have knowledge on how to fix this. 

etc\apps\search\local\inputs.conf

[tcp://514]
connection_host = ip
index = appian
sourcetype = syslog

[SSL]
requireClientCert = false
serverCert =  $SPLUNK_HOME\etc\auth\splunkweb\myDataCertificate.pem
sslVersions = tls1.2
cipherSuite = ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:DH-DSS-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-DSS-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DH-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA256:DH-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DH-DSS-AES256-SHA256:ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ADH-AES256-SHA256:ECDH-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDH-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDH-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDH-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES256-SHA256

Sample Encrypted Data

10/10/21 8:04:18.000 PM
\x00\x00\x00\x9E\x00\x9F\xC0|\xC0}\x003\x00g\x009\x00k\x00E\x00\xBE\x00\x88\x00\xC4\x00\x00\xA2\x00\xA3\xC0\x80\xC0\x81\x002\x00@\x008\x00j\x00D\x00\xBD\x00\x87\x00\xC3\x00\x00f\x00\x00D\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xFF\x00\x00\x00#\x00\x00\x00

10/10/21 8:04:18.000 PM
\xC0r\xC0\xC0\xC0/\xC00\xC0\x8A\xC0\x8B\xC0\xC0'\xC0\xC0v\xC0\xC0\x00\x9C\x00\x9D\xC0z\xC0{\x00/\x00<\x005\x00=\x00A\x00\xBA\x00\x84\x00\xC0\x00

1 reply

priyeshs3359
July 19, 2023

Hi Pavan, were you be able to resolve the encryption issue ? We are using ELK and facing similar issue. Log data received over tcp port via vpn is encoded.